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It is not the One that becomes Two or even directly three, four, five etc. It is not a multiple derived from the one, or to which one is added (n+1). It is comprised not of units but of dimensions, or rather directions in motion. It has neither beginning nor end, but always a middle (milieu) from which it grows and which it overspills. It constitutes linear multiplicities with n dimensions having neither subject nor object, which can be laid out on a plane of consistency, and from which the one is always subtracted (n-1).

Deleuze & Guattari, Rhizome

No knowledge produced is an emanation of the subject, but of its encounters.

After my graduation in sociology at the Institute of Sociology, Free University Berlin I’ve worked as a collaborator in artificial intelligence studies at the Mind Machine Project at the MIT, Cambridge/MA, as a visiting fellow at the Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans (ROCEEH) project in Tübingen, Germany, at the Interacting Minds Center, Aarhus, Denmark and with the interdisciplinary working group menschenformen, Berlin. I have earned a doctorate degree in sociology at the Institute of Sociology, Free University Berlin with the interdisciplinary thesis „Rekursion zivilisatorischer Kapazitäten als Entwicklungsmuster in der Zivilisationsgeschichte. Untersuchung der Möglichkeit einer Verknüpfung des paläoanthropologischen Modells der Erweiterung kultureller Kapazitäten mit Arno Bammés Theorie axialer Zäsuren“ (Engl. „Recursion of Civilizational Capacities as Developmental Pattern in Civilizational History. A Study on the Potentials of a Synthesis Between the Cognitive Archeological Model of the Expansion of Cultural Capacities and Arno Bammé’s Theory of Axial Caesurae“). During my years as a PhD student I have been a lecturer for sociology at the HTK Academy of Design, and lecturer for philosophy, epistemology and aesthetics at BTK University of Art and Design Berlin. I have edited several books at sine causa publishing house and co-founded the journal „Plateau. Magazin für experimentelle Kulturanthropologie“ which is dedicated to the examination of cultural theoretical and philosophical anthropological thought beyond the paradigms of the 20th century. Currently I’m a teacher at the interdisciplinary research platform The New Center for Research and Practice and lecturer for history of knowledge and epistemology at Leuphana University, Lüneburg.

Determinism, Self-Organziation, Generativity: On the History and Future of the Relation between Mind and Universe. Lecture for the talk series “Vorschule,” art collective Betakontext, Berlin, 14. Oct. 2017